Media Advisories

Eduardo Ochoa, assistant secretary for postsecondary education, will participate on a panel at The American Association of Colleges and Teacher Education’s (AACTE) annual meeting, at noon PST on Thursday, Feb. 24, at the Manchester Grand Hyatt in San Diego, Calif.

Melody Musgrove, director of the U.S. Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP), will give remarks at the National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) annual convention on Thursday, Feb. 24 in San Francisco. Musgrove will outline some of the challenges special education is facing and...

Kevin Jennings, assistant deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools, will give the keynote address at the Texas School Social Workers’ 20th anniversary at 8:30 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 24, at the Doubletree Hotel in Austin.

WASHINGTON – Assistant to the President and Cabinet Secretary Chris Lu, White House National Economic Council Senior Advisor Ginger Lew and White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders Director Kiran Ahuja will hold a conference call with reporters on Wednesday to discuss key...

José Rico, deputy director of the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanics, will give remarks at the opening plenary session of Hillsborough Community College’s “Black Brown and College Bound” conference at 12:45 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 23, in Tampa, Fla.

Education Under Secretary Martha Kanter will deliver the keynote address during the “One Region One Vision: Educating Our Way to a Better Economy” summit hosted by the Center of Workforce Innovations on Wednesday, Feb. 23 at 5:15 p.m. CST. The event is being held at Hobart High School in Hobart...

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan will be in Los Angeles on Friday, Feb. 18, to participate in a roundtable discussion on ways to accomplish the goals of the national teacher recruitment campaign, known as TEACH, take part in a media availability following the roundtable, and play in the...

Assistant Secretary Alexa Posny will address the Education Research and Development Institute Wednesday in Denver. She will discuss her goals as assistant secretary overseeing the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

Eduardo Ochoa, assistant secretary for postsecondary education at the U.S. Department of Education, will give remarks at an American Enterprise Institute (AEI) event at 3 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 15, at the organization’s Wohlstetter Conference Center in Washington, D.C.